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Finally, a use for all those stupid Yellow Pages I keep getting

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

I finally found a use for some of the many Yellow Pages I keep getting:

Now, my monitor is finally at eye level and I don’t have to strain my neck looking down.  I guess “Progressive Plumbing and Piping”, “Sunrise Dental” and “Smiles of Cary” got their money’s worth when advertising in the Talking Phone Book [...]

Social Networking + Ads = Facebook’s ‘Social Ads’ - Yahoo! News

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

Social Networking + Ads = Facebook’s ‘Social Ads’ - Yahoo! News
The more I think about this, the more I think Facebookers are getting ripped off.  Here, you are providing companies an extremely valuable resource (i.e. your interests PLUS your friends and family who you KNOW share in the things you like to do, at least [...]

Facebook invites ads into user profiles - Yahoo! News

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

Facebook invites ads into user profiles - Yahoo! News
Hmmm, I seemed to have missed the part where the people producing all the content that Facebook is capitalizing on get a cut of the ad revenue that is generated from their pages. Why again is this a good thing for Facebook users?  Why should I [...]